Navigating Uncertainty - S01E09 - Armageddon & OKRA: Australian air power in the Middle East

UNSW Canberra Podcasts

Armageddon and OKRA: Australian air power in the Middle East a century apart  In 1918, Australian led air power helped defeat an Ottoman army during the Battle of Armageddon in Palestine. One hundred years later, Australian air power was again operating in the Middle East during Operation OKRA.   A century seems a long time in the contemporary world. But these two points in time – Armageddon and OKRA – are inextricably linked in terms of the Australian experience of war. Lewis Frederickson, Chief of Air Force Fellow at UNSW Canberra, and Professor Clinton Fernandes discuss the synergies between these two conflicts.